New predator centro shaft

has anyone got to hit any with this yet? It’s a carbon fiber center with maple on the outside. They are already sold out of course 🙄
So... They're finally admitting CF has no feedback and wood does. One small step for players, one giant leap for Bangers!!😂
 
So... They're finally admitting CF has no feedback and wood does. One small step for players, one giant leap for Bangers!!😂
No predator tries to innovate. Predator is successful for the same reason golf companies are. They have to come out with something new to maintain your market share. If you don’t innovate your dead.
And now little troll you get blocked. Your one of those guys that thinks they know everything and has to make fun of anyone that does something different or doesn’t like what you like and I really don’t have time for children like you. Later
 
So, did predator just remake the cuetec r360 shaft? If memory serves correctly, this is the same principle.
Is R360 an old Cuetec shaft once available? I can't find it on the Cuetec's website except it will see you an extension for it. Was it a wood-on-the-outside and some carbon-fiber-on-the-inside shaft?
 
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Is R360 an old Cuetec shaft once available? I can't find it on the Cuetec's website except that it will see you an extension for it. Was it a wood-on-the-outside and some carbon-fiber-on-the-inside shaft?
Yes, it was a shaft they offered, probably 15+ years ago. Wood on the outside with a "composite rod" on the inside. SVB made it popular when he switched over to it. It was actually a pretty nice playing shaft overall.
 
The C.F. tube is designed to reduce front end mass and lower cue ball deflection. It hits and sounds like a good wood shaft.
The reason why I ask because my Mezz sigma is "wood" but I've heard there is a rod inside or something inside. It's heavy to me and when I draw it makes a sound like a carbon shaft.

I haven't been playing with it due to it's weight.

Here is the diagram on Mezz's site. It's the standard shaft for their entry level cue. Not bad at all shoots great but I just don't like the weight of it.
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From Predator's site:
the Centro features a hard Maple construction fortified with a front-end carbon fiber core. This unique hybrid structure delivers a stiffer shaft for greater power transmission—more forceful than a 314, yet more responsive than a REVO. In simple terms, Centro delivers a traditional feel, with slightly more power than spliced Maple shafts, but not as much power as the REVO shaft. Compared to a spliced Maple shaft, you will notice more power on force follow shots, draw shots, and punch strokes.
To me it just sounds completely unnecessary...
If you can't get enough power from a 314 shaft, then you should work on your stroke and not buy another shaft...
And if the Revo is not responsive enough, then they should work on a Revo Ver.2 instead of this.
 
From Predator's site:

To me it just sounds completely unnecessary...
If you can't get enough power from a 314 shaft, then you should work on your stroke and not buy another shaft...
And if the Revo is not responsive enough, then they should work on a Revo Ver.2 instead of this.
Yep.

I consider the 314 no black cat the one of the best shaft I've played with from a production standpoint. The Meucci red dot from the 90's to early 00's come a close second. I would probably choose the Meucci.
 
my Mezz sigma is "wood" but I've heard there is a rod inside or something inside. It's heavy to me and when I draw it makes a sound like a carbon shaft.

I haven't been playing with it due to it's weight.

Here is the diagram on Mezz's site. It's the standard shaft for their entry level cue. Not bad at all shoots great but I just don't like the weight of it

Mezz has three Sigma shafts: Sigma, Sigma Slim, and Sigma Thick (E, Es, Et). You mentioned your Sigma was heavy ---it sounds like you got Sigma Thick.

As far as the shaft interior? It seems like Mezz's intention was to make a low-deflection wood shaft. It cored out a maple shaft and attached a vault-plate-like ferrule. Just as a carbon-fiber tube needs a vault plate --- so, too, does Mezz's cored-wood shaft. Some more whittling was done by making the shaft pro taper. All of this makes for a light---not a heavy--- shaft.

I am guessing the inside of the Sigma and Sigma Light shafts is foam --- just like the carbon fiber shafts. Sigma Thick's inside? Foam and weights (metal rods, plates, pins, weights?).

(By the way, why are Predator shafts shown on the Mezz's website https://mezzcue.com/en/products_pool/shafts ?)

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Mezz has three Sigma shafts: Sigma, Sigma Slim, and Sigma Thick (E, Es, Et). You mentioned your Sigma was heavy ---it sounds like you got Sigma Thick.

As far as the shaft interior? It seems like Mezz's intention was to make a low-deflection wood shaft. It cored out a maple shaft and attached a vault-plate-like ferrule. Just as a carbon-fiber tube needs a vault plate --- so, too, does Mezz's cored-wood shaft. Some more whittling was done by making the shaft pro taper. All of this makes for a light---not a heavy--- shaft.

I am guessing the inside of the Sigma and Sigma Light shafts is foam --- just like the carbon fiber shafts. Sigma Thick's inside? Foam and weights (metal rods, plates, pins, weights?).

(By the way, why are Predator shafts shown on the Mezz's website https://mezzcue.com/en/products_pool/shafts ?)

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Mezz has proprietary joints. So they are selling Predators that can plug and play right away with their cues.

I know its weird.
 
From Predator's site:

To me it just sounds completely unnecessary...
If you can't get enough power from a 314 shaft, then you should work on your stroke and not buy another shaft...
And if the Revo is not responsive enough, then they should work on a Revo Ver.2 instead of this.
Your not wrong but as I said in this post and in many others predator runs their company like golf manufactures successfully have. Every year you have to have new clubs come out or you’ll lose market value. I heard the ceo of Taylor made say as much as half. New golf clubs will always give the same kind of jargon describing what they do and how they are made so you think they are better. Just like pool these two things are what matters. 1) if you don’t have a swing it won’t matter. 2) if you don’t like the feel it won’t matter. I’m looking forward to trying one to see what the hit feels like. Just like the first time I hit with the revo.. if I didn’t like the hit I wouldn’t play with it and the same would go for this.
 
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